Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d92e1f90b892ed32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-09-25 19:24:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 87ca20388434b8348d67c9706fbacb0e SHA-1: 2636a58890fadf9dbf5e6bafe167e5bdb3d36b1e SHA-256: d92e1f90b892ed323d86b7d71701538bf716f62008f63e8cf15d3f37ff95279b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection or obfuscate the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/deginanoranijuliji.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://associazionemillesogni.it/userfiles/files/37713180936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wpchkg.com/upload/image/file/jodusiwelidevimepokod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioidahoacuong.com/uploads/image/files/16777338677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamboeng.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65459251312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mextro.de/upload/files/20872835896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrodomesticaruano.com/images/ckfinder/files/zenopez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jaegeraviation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gamogemix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.utn.ac.cr/sites/default/files/files/tilisisefobuwejurak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osakadentalcare.com/contents/files/56808211645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bargiel.com.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vugopejabifibikukir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.erealitysolutions.com/tennisontario/assets/appsadmin/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nojagileje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-metal.e-giant.net/archive/file/files/30119162542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mansiya.com/uploadfile/files/rafovadaxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghefootmassage.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/38561545122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rracc.com/file_media/file_image/file/72966943588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellev.fr/upload/files/40602607629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ff7852a2c69ea90abf89ae99386565e/26193210974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bd69a44dd1---tefolopesepubega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lasuxuxekororufakekel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/zigido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlsy.cz/images/file/files/54819592546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangvetthuong.com/luutru/files/46853964663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bbc38c2518---revokukupewetosusuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=logan+paul+fight+live+streamPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b566.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB566 10928 bytes
SHA-256: e13200bf1180a4a3e4c855e562e5baa1b64f9435fbc7215fd50f9be4b88fa3bc
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE8C 19004 bytes
SHA-256: d8e11cc41d5e523ebf0c03cdd7d4ee32da38cd5f80943392717a876cc8cfcca6
font_02_sfnt_off0000fff4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFF4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1